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Well, fuck. TIL that Gary Richrath died in 2015. The Wikipedia entry includes this cryptic statement from Kevin Cronin:
"He had some stomach problem or something and he went in the hospital to get treated for a stomach ailment and there were complications and he didn't make it."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:09 (four months ago) link
longish story that's stuck with me for decades, content warning for teenagers doing hard drugs. it's 1982. me and a friend of mine in high school, I will call him Bob, we have both known since we were kids that we wanted to try heroin. some people are just like that. we are in a pod of friends, the rest of whom aren't as dope-seeking as us, but anyway all of us hang out in some formation daily, nightly, whatever, we work the same jobs, we're always hanging out, getting late night coffee, sitting around the stereo. we're big music snobs, we like Bowie and Lou Reed and Iggy and that's basically our entire lane, we're into some newer stuff which is like, Talking Heads. any brainier new stuff. so one weekend, I don't know where Bob's at, and instead of hanging out I just do whatever with other people from inside the same pod, but on Monday I see him -- "Where were you all weekend?" "Oh I couldn't wait to tell you, dude I hung out with these people who were friends of somebody from work and I got to try heroin." "Whoa holy fuck dude, what was it like?" "Well, it was great, but, like, after I did it, we were all hanging out at their apartment, you know, talking and listening to music, and talking about music, and it was late, and one of them said, you know, 'we can talk about all this music that's good or whatever, but when you really need something great, when you really need the music that's there for you, there's only one band.' And then the other ones jumped in, like they already knew who he meant, and they said, 'absolutely right, REO Speedwagon.' And I was just sitting there listening for a long time, you know, and I was on drugs, so I wondered if maybe they were joking and I wasn't getting the jok., but I just listened for a long time and that's what they were saying, and finally I couldn't take it, and I said -- hey -- I hear what you guys are saying, but don't you all realize that REO sucks?"
He told this story with incredulity in his voice, like holy shit Joan I spent Saturday with people who actually like REO.
I remember this story every time I hear REO Speedwagon, for forty years.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:57 (four months ago) link